https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=173225

Steve Forde <[email protected]> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|RESOLVED                    |REOPENED
         Resolution|NOTABUG                     |---
     Ever confirmed|0                           |1

--- Comment #3 from Steve Forde <[email protected]> ---
I understand that. My issue is that I wanted to reduce my use of the sidebar,
because I find it intrusive. But having used it for some earlier line thickness
settings elsewhere in my presentation, there was no other straightforward way
of replicating that line width precisely. So I found I had to go back to the
sidebar. 

Softmaker Office manages this more elegantly. It has an "Object" ribbon which
includes line thickness. The dropdown offer a number of presets, with a "More"
option. The "More" option takes you to a screen that RETAINS THOSE PRESETS but
also (a) offers many others and (b) allows fine control over line thickness. So
consistency is retained whilst also offering flexibility.

In principle, Impress could work in a similar way. All that would be required
is:

(a) to offer a button in the sidebar equivalent to "more", which takes the user
directly to the "line" right-click screen;

(b) to offer the same range of presets for line thickness in the "line"
right-click screen as are offered in the sidebar. Presets are already offered
for "style", colour, corner style and cap style; the only one missing is
thickness.

That would deliver consistency without (on the face of it) any requirement for
major UI change.

Anyway - it was just a suggestion. I've reopened this so my response is read,
but if you all disagree, feel free to close it again.

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